Thursday, May 27, 2010

Art Parody

I was thinking about the art of art parody. There are piece that lend themselves to this art very well because of their notoriety. I think Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” is the most parodied. DaVinci’s “Last Supper” and the” Mona Lisa” are the next two most often parodied. Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” has seen a lot of parody action. Michelangelo’s” Creation” has been extensively reworked as has Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.

Interesting to me is that both Hopper and Wood are 20th century painters and though daVinci and Michelangelo had a five-hundred year lead on them, their notoriety is stellar. Another interesting thing is that one doesn’t have to go far to find nearly every painting in existence has been parodied by the Simpsons.

I hope that the parody artists will expand their horizon to more obscure artists in the future because it is through them that we are awakened to the beauty of the original works.

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There is just not much I love more than a good parody. Art- "Mona Gorilla" is one of my faves. Music- Anything by Weird Al. Literature- "Bored of the Rings" by Harvard Lampoon. Movies- "Spaceballs" and "Airplane" are high art indeed. If I had artistic abilities of any degree, I would be a parody artist.